No Collada (.dae) Import option on Ubuntu 2.76b
Found a fix (by complete coincidence) on this Github page: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Chromebook-Pixel

sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt install blender